by Sandy » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:49 pm
I'm not sure how they divide their funding, or allocate resources, but defunding Planned Parenthood will not stop them from providing abortion services. It may drive the price up somewhat, but since tax dollars cannot go to support or fund abortion, the only thing defunding Planned Parenthood will do is cut the beneficial health services they provide to lower income women. Of course, denying medical care to lower income families is a central objective of Republican policy. They won't admit it but that is what they want to do, for some reason.
It seems to me that if the objective is to reduce, or end, the practice of abortion, there would be a more effective way of doing it without dismantling health care for those who really need it.